Improvement in the manufacture of boots and shoes



A. MILLER; Manufacture of Bqots and Shoes.

No. 196,372. Patehted Oct. 23,1877.

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ANDREW MILLER, OF OHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE. MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,372, dated October 23, 1877 application filed September 10, 1877. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW MILLER, of Oheektowaga, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoes, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation, Fig. 2

' a top view, and Fig. 3, a bottom view, of a shoe showing my invention.

This invention consists of a shoe having the lower soles connected together (and to the upper) by a row of pegs, and the edges thereof firmly fastened together by an outer line of stitching.

The lower soles of a pegged shoe or boot are liable to separate at theedges unless held together by some means in addition to the pegs.

The object of my invention is to obviate this objection, by placing aline of stitching aroimd outside of the row of pegs, andas near to the edge of the sole as possible, so as to bindthem closely together, and thereby increase their strength and durability, and also add to the appearance of the shoe.

In' said drawings, A represents a shoe having my invention connected therewith. The

letters B C, Fig. 1, show the upper and lower outer soles, and the dotted lines D the position of the insole. E, Fig. 3, represents a row of pegs for holding the two outside soles to the upper and to the insole in the ordinary way. F, Fig. 3, is the line of stitching for connecting the edges of the soles B O firmly and closely together, which stitching is covered at the bottom, but exposed at the top, as shown at F, Fig. 2, so as to add to the appearance of ANDREW MILLER.

Witnesses:

F. P. STIKER, WM. S. GROSVENOR. 

